Жанр "Нехудожественная литература на английском языке"

Collecting legendary lectures from freewheeling scientific genius Richard P. Feynman, The Character of Physical Law is the...

The sixth of nine volumes in the major Penguin History of Britain series, A Monarchy Transformed narrates the tempestuous...

The Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and...

A portrait of 18th century England, from its princes to its paupers, from its metropolis to its smallest hamlet. The topics...

Armed with the insights of the scientific revolution, the men of the Enlightenment set out to free mankind from its age-old...

Wicked stepmothers and beautiful princesses … magic forests and enchanted towers … little pigs and big bad wolves … Fairy tales...

In "The New Science of Strong Materials" the author made plain the secrets of materials science. In this volume he explains the...

Palladio (1508-80) combined classical restraint with constant inventiveness. In this study, Professor Ackerman sets Palladio in...

In Consciousness Explained, Daniel C. Dennett reveals the secrets of one of the last remaining mysteries of the universe: the...

McPherson recounts the momentous episodes that preceded the Civil War including the Dred Scott decision, the Lincoln-Douglas...

For six centuries the Republic of Venice was a maritime empire, its sovereign power extending throughout much of the eastern...

As mentioned in The Times Travel Book Club 2020

Award winning writer Paul Theroux embarks on a journey that, though closer to...

If you want to discover the captivating history of the French Revolution, this is the book for you . . .

Concise, convincing...

In the terrible aftermath of the moorland battle of Culloden, the Highlanders suffered at the hands of their own clan chiefs....

Brian Keenan went to Beirut in 1985 for a change of scene from his native Belfast. He became headline news when he was kidnapped...

An intelligent, yet emotionally honest portrait of one of the 20th century's influential, engimatic thinkers.

'Monk's...

1969 was a year of rising tension, violence and change for the people of Northern Ireland. Rioting in Derry's Bogside led to the...

Australia celebrated one hundred years as a nation in 2001. This book - part history, part travelogue, part memoir - tells the...

Bruce Chatwin sets off on a journey through South America in this wistful classic travel book

With its unique, roving...

Foley... , Coates...

Need to swot up on your Shakespeare? The ultimate guide to the Bard, perfect for the Shakespeare aficionado and general reader...

In 1960s Bristol, a family is overshadowed by tragedy

While Susan, a typically feisty seven-year-old, is busy being brave, her...

A man punches the wall in a strategic show of anger. Another complains he has become a stranger to those he loves. A third relies...

Welcome to the world of the sharp-suited ‘faces’. The Italianistas. The scooter-riding, all-night-dancing instigators of what...

A neurologist explores the very real world of psychosomatic illness.

Pauline first became ill when she was fifteen. What...

Five women. One house. One extraordinary history.

Even today, Cliveden retains its royal mystique - it is where Meghan Markle...

Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs. The Astounding Interconnectedness of the UniverseThe most thrilling, genre-busting, unlikely...

'After Mark Cocker's glorious book, you will never look at a blackberry bush the same way again.'
Philip Hoare, New Statesman...

A great thinker's final testament: a characteristically wise and forthright collection of essays from the author of Postwar and...

'Flaneuse [flanne-euhze], noun, from the French. Feminine form of flaneur [flanne-euhr], an idler, a dawdling observer, usually...

From the author of Into The Silence, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction

In 1941, Richard Evans Schultes took...